Diana Krall

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don’t change.

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

You want the listener to find the song on their own, give too much away and it takes away from the imagination.

I’m not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I’d rather be figured out.

I’ve sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you’re writing it’s very difficult to decide what to reveal.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.

The thing I always default to is that I’ll always be here to write songs.

The true musician plays what he/she hears. That cannot be a mistake.

I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch.

Django was the definitive genius on the guitar, and the depth of his gift was so spectacular.

Rather than say I play Jazz, I simply say I play music.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.

Music and life are all about style.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn’t, I don’t really see a point to it.

I don’t have a favorite song that I’ve written. But I do have a favorite song: ‘Always on My Mind,’ the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

It’s always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she’s the same old broad.

I don’t like to look back because the whole point in Jazz is doing it now.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I’ve always depended upon my own melodic instinct, instead of scale like formulas.

Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.